Quotes About Freedom

liberty came to the West centuries before democracy. Liberty led to democracy and not the other way around.

In fact, some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out

Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.

In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that.

The marsh toads interviewed the eagle 'How come you venture so high? Aren't you scared you'll hit the ceiling That blue metal dome they call the sky?' The eagle knew these earth-bound creatures Were ignorant of boundless space And couldn't conceive of infinities Not being born to the wind's embrace." From Bachchoo's Fables

Second, the press, which has never been braver since, fought against martial law through covert resistance, or as the government called it 'deviant behaviour'.

Cuànto nos hemos esmerado para conservar intacta nuestra ignorancia, para lanzarnos en brazos de una libertad, de una despreocupaciòn, de una imprudencia, de un entusiasmo y de una alegrìa de vivir casi inconcebibles, para gozar de la vida!

Ricos y pobres, parece que los estadounidenses ven la bancarrota como un «derecho inalienable», casi en igualdad de condiciones con «la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad».

Writing fiction (that means I make up stuff) is like having a free GO PAST GO card. You can write pretty much whatever you want, burn down a building, maim or kill a character, you can create love, hate, payback. You can create fictional places that over time actually become real to you the writer, and also to the reader. For example, Pinewood, where the vigilantes hang out, is a fictional farm in McLean, Virginia.

Life's too short. If it's going to make you happy, then that's the way to go.

it's time to hit the road.

get it open. He was light-headed with relief. He blasted

Palabras. No hay manera de quitárselas de encima. No le dejan a una estar verdaderamente sola. Plaga de bichos molestos, oye. Debería abrir las ventanas de par en par para que salgan a la calle las palabras, los lamentos, las viejas conversaciones tristes atrapadas entre los tabiques del piso deshabitado.

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento. Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn't come. I'm free, and against organized, clothed society. I'm naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.

Sit under the sun abdicate and be your own king

But the horror that's destroying me today is less noble and more corrosive. It's a longing to be free of wanting to have thoughts, a desire to never have been anything, a conscious despair in every cell of my soul's body. It's the sudden feeling of being imprisoned in an infinite cell. Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything?

Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.

perché se la libertà non è in me non la troverò da nessuna parte.

Só esta liberdade nos concedem Os deuses: submetermo-nos Ao seu domínio por vontade nossa. Mais vale assim fazermos Porque só na ilusão da liberdade A liberdade existe.

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for.

La soledad es la posibilidad del aislamiento. Si te es imposible vivir solo, naciste esclavo.